Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practical Democrats knew that personal Presidential purges did not usually pay off. In his 1938 purge campaign even Master Tactician Franklin Roosevelt had been able to unseat only one of the five obstreperous Democratic Congressmen he had set out to get. It is axiomatic that local voters do not like to have outsiders, even Presidents, coming around to tell them how to vote...
While Kentucky's trap-jawed Congressman stubbornly ignored all invitations to testify before the Senate's Mead Committee, a whole array of Congressmen and Senators trooped in to explain how their names had popped up in the investigation of the Garsson munitions combine. In a matter of minutes Mead Committeemen examined and exonerated House Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Adolph Sabath, Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley...
...Fellow Congressmen raged. Abashed for once in his life, Barreto Pinto took refuge in a libel suit, charged that Photographer Manzon had used montage tricks, had promised to snap him only from the waist up. As Barreto Pinto's own Labor Party prepared to expel him if he lost his case, he beat them to the punch by resigning...
...widespread debt retirement, lower taxes in baa years with added debt if necessary). To citizens haunted by the U.S.'s massive debt and tlie inflationary influences of an unbalanced budget, it looked good. But to politicians, a compensatory fiscal program has no campaign sex appeal. By election time Congressmen may decide that a tax cut is a better campaign approach...
Jubilantly, progressive Republicans prepared to bury Midwestern isolationism. But most political prophets were cautious about building local results into a national, or even a sectional pattern. Last month, North Dakota voters had returned diehard isolationist Bill Langer to the Senate. And in Minnesota isolationist Congressmen had been renominated, in contests where Stassenism was not a factor. The defeat of Henrik Shipstead caused scarcely a ripple in congressional cloakrooms, changed no votes in the battle in the House over the British Loan (see The Congress...